Alan Lightman Quotes

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

Alan Lightman

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What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

John Avlon

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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Anish Kapoor

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I'm a huge Disney fan.

Amber Stevens

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With 'Defenders,' we had some very barebones ideas, but the bulk of it came together very quickly over in Ibiza. The main thing I like about that record, looking back on it now, is the change in the texture of the production from 'Screaming For Vengeance.'

Rob Halford

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My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

Robert Wyatt

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Tuff Gong is the name of our father's enterprise, and we're continuing his legacy.

Rohan Marley

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My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

Ludacris

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But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

Jarvis Cocker

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The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.

Dionne Warwick

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We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.

Chris Gibson

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I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

Chita Rivera

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